Always be vague. Say I think they’re in today or not until later. If they press say it’s company policy not to give out the schedule. Most companies do have this and even if they don’t how would a stranger know. Don’t give out specifics, they can get people injured or even killed.
At my last job someone came up and asked when “Sarah” was working next. I didn’t tell him and then texted her a description, turns out he was an abusive ex who had been stalking her. Don’t do this shit please.
I work at a sex shop and this kinda shit happens constantly. when I first started out there was this one girl working here who was pretty and friendly and not good at telling people to fuck off so she had a whole litany of stalkers who would try to get me to tell them when she was in. for random people who I didn’t know anything about I would literally pretend not to know who she was (like “oh, I’m new so I don’t actually know all the girls who work here” all wide-eyed and innocent lmao), but there were some recurring creeps who knew she worked there and wanted her schedule: for those guys I would say I wasn’t permitted to give out that information or that I didn’t know, and if they persisted I’d call them the fuck out, and ban them if they still didn’t back down.
most of the guys after her were easy to spot (it was usually the old creeps who rented stepdaughter porn) but one time it was an 18 year old from the nearby college who said the two of them had plans and he was supposed to meet her there today. I played dumb and got as much info off him as I could by asking him questions under the pretense of conversation. it didn’t take very long for him to expose himself: he started talking about how beautiful she was and how he wanted to date her and when I said “oh, I thought she had a boyfriend?” he said “no, most girls with boyfriends have pictures of them all over social media and she doesn’t have any pictures of a guy on her instagram or facebook, even as far back as 2014” and then he pulled up her instagram profile and started talking about how he’d shown his mom pictures of her and his mom thought she looked “slutty” but he didn’t care. then he hung around the shop for 5 whole hours waiting for her before giving up (she wasn’t even in that day lmao but I let him suffer). I made sure to get his name “so I can tell her if I see her!” and then when he left I contacted camera crew for his picture and messaged the girl about the situation. she didn’t have plans with him. she didn’t know how he got her social media. she was really fucking creeped out. we banned his ass and put his picture on our wall of shame.
stalkers don’t have one easily identifiable look so don’t ever give out your coworkers info, no matter how convincing or benign the person you’re dealing with is. if someone is actually related to or friends with your coworker, they’ll have a way to contact them independent of their job. if possible, also get as much info about the person inquiring as possible so that you can adequately warn your coworker and/or file a report on them. don’t let your friendliness enable stalkers and abusers.
Remember this the next time you want to complain about GMO’s, we may not have done it in a lab but they still are that.
Bananas looked like lemons wtf
Isn’t this more of a combination of selective breeding and GMOs? Not just GMOs?
Yes. But people talk about how GMO’s are “unnatural”, yet for centuries humanity has been exploiting mutations in animals and plants to produce food for themselves.
GMO’s are simply the process of inducing these mutations reliably.
People hear “Lettuce being modified with scorpion DNA” and think that we’re now eating scorpions. But, in reality, they’re taking a tiny bit of scorpion DNA and splicing it into the plant. Why? So the plant will produce poison that is not harmful to humans but will deter insects, reducing the use of pesticide, which CAN be harmful to humans and the environment.
GMOs are producing rice that can survive flooding, which makes rice more reliable yields and will prevent food shortages in poor nations that rely on said crops for staple food.
GMOs are also creating spider-goat hybrids. Why? So we can splice web production into the goat’s udders. We’ll be able to spin huge quantities of spider silk, enough to reliably create spider silk cables and ropes, which have more tensile strength than steel.
I for one am glad I live in a time where watermelons aren’t giant tomato abominations
Are we gonna ignore the whole spider goat thing or what
“Crayola ColorCycle will accept all brands of plastic markers, not just Crayola markers. That includes dry erase markers and highlighters! ColorCycle will eliminate placing hundreds of tons of markers into landfills.”
There do seem to be some limits, however, as far as I can tell, anyone can ship in a box of markers. “Any sturdy cardboard box with minimal outer markings will work. The more markers you ship, the more efficient this program will be. We suggest a minimum of 100 markers and a maximum of up to 40 pounds.”
Her name is Theresa Kachindamoto, and she is a senior chief – political leader of a region with a population of about 900,000 people.
She didn’t run for election; she was appointed, without her knowledge, while she was living and working in a completely different part of the country. She just received a call one day telling her to come back to her childhood home, because she was in charge now.
So she did; and when she arrived, she discovered widespread sexual abuse of children. She browbeat 50 uncooperative local leaders into accepting her decision to annul all the marriages. She then fired four of them when they continued to allow children to be married off in their areas. She still faces widespread opposition from parents who consider it their right to sexually abuse their daughters if they want to; but Kachindamoto very evidently does not give a fuck, and is continuing to use political and legal means to protect children in the region.
She’s not just an anonymous do-gooder; she’s an effective political leader despite incredibly difficult circumstances. Theresa Kachindamoto.
I used to work at the National Gallery in London. Old men came up to me fairly regularly to complain about the young girls (and sometimes the tourists of a particular ethnicity or nationality) taking selfies with the art. I’d smile and say, it’s an interesting diptych because so many of the most celebrated works in the Gallery are portraits– the ‘selfies’ of yesteryear– and indeed, Van Eyck’s /Portrait of a Man/ (1433) may be the earliest known panel self portrait, ant the very least in western art history, so framing oneself in that context, comparing the methods of portraiture over a span of a little under 600 years, is at its heart a commentary on the human desire to remember and be remembered, to catalog one’s existence and give it authenticity.
They did not like that let me tell you.
Thank you for fighting the good fight, unicornsandbutane.
